Posts Tagged ‘networking’

SOLVED: Connects to Network, but not to Internet

Monday, June 27th, 2011

So — this guy brings me his lappy because it won’t get online.

I see that McAfee is unactivated. Only one option is available — ACTIVATE. But you can’t because it’s not online.

Since I suspect McAfee has blocked internet access, I look everywhere for a place to change it. But it can’t be found. It’s all greyed.

So I uninstall McAfee and the lappy gets online right away.

Bye-bye McAfee, hello MS Security Essentials.

Solving Network Problems – Bad Cable…

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

The network at my office has been giving me fits since I moved in. It’s a brand new building with brand new wiring. I was excited to put my computers and router into the offices and get to work.

But from day one I had trouble with my networking. It would work great then run extremely slow. I played with MTU. I complained to my DSL provider. I flashed routers. I replaced routers. I ran DD-WRT firmware. Nothing fixed it… until I thought of something called RFI.

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